Originally my photo “Snarl” taken in in February 2007 and cropped to remove the watermark. 

Feel free to re-share my images but don’t remove the watermark, copyright or source information.

Fractal Fall, 2008

I had a final composition like this in mind when I shot the orange canopy of this tree. Flipped one shot horizontally and vertically in 4 different layers and upped the contrast and shifted the blue hue about 15 points darker. Ended up being a 120MB Tiff file that i flattened and exported from in Lightroom to become a 34MB jpeg. And then this one I posted.   

** and yes I know it’s not technically a Mandelbrot-esque fractal. 

The Secret Bench of Knowledge

It is a sculpture created by Canadian artist Lea Vivot and was produced in multiple castings. This one, or perhaps more correctly they, sit outside Library and Archives Canada on Wellington St, in Ottawa.

In Flanders Fields…

I wanted to do a ghostly processing on the bronze figures at the front of the National War Memorial. And when done, they were isolated on a field of white and almost like they were pencil or charcoal sketches. It is different than what you normally see and I like the result. 

National War Memorial
Ottawa, Canada

Onaping Falls, Autumn, 2012

The Onaping Falls, or High Falls, are where the Onaping River leaves theCanadian Shield and drops 46 metres into the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive, the enormous crater caused by a meteorite strike two billion years ago - the event that made Sudbury, Ontario so rich in ore deposits like Nickel.

In 1953, A.Y. Jackson, one of the founding members of the Canadian “Group of Seven” painters, visited this site and painted Spring on the Onaping River.  I was hard pressed to find an image of his painting either before or after I visited this spot about 40km  NW of Sudbury.  I never found one, but I am sure there is one out there somewhere. Even the McMichael Gallery in Kelinburg don’t believe there is an archival image. The painting was stolen around the time of his death in early 1970s and never recovered.

Air Beluga

Outside an LCBO across the street from the Sheraton in Ottawa. I can only imagine coming out of the LCBO after already having had a few beverages and seeing a beluga flying overhead. :)

For those not in Ontario, all  alcohol in the province is sold in government liquor stores operated by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario  or LCBO for short. 

Running II

Running

I  like this free spirited shot of Corey running in a forest a couple of years ago. I need to find more free spirited nude models. :)

I shot this in 2008. Well before the episode “A Good Man Goes to War” of Dr Who with the Headless Monks. However, when seeing this image the other day, I instantly thought of that. My subject’s neck is, however, somewhat more attractive. ;)

Ace of Nudes

Re-work of an image from 2006

Collar bone, 2006

I was emailed by an awesome nude model in England thinking I was there and not in Canada. Le sigh. I need to do collaborations with slightly more local models.

Semi abstract nude image of Amy I shot in 2006.

Chun Zi, Abandoned 10

‘St Lawrence II’ coming into Port’

The 72 foot (22m) brigantine St Lawrence II coming into Port Stanley at sunset, Aug18 2012.

chun-zi:

These are actually my lips from when I was about 16. I did my first photoshoots with this photographer who I’m now happy to call my friend. 

I changed the source because ‘vamp’ who ever on deviant art did not have any part in this image. The image was cropped to hide the watermark.

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© Mike Wood Photography

Thanks Chun Zi. an oldie but a goodie snarl, my friend. :)

Katy, Abandoned.

Image shot yesterday of Katy in her wet look capris.